Navigating Industry 4.0 in Materials, Minerals & Mining

Explore the future of Materials, Minerals & Mining in the era of Industry 4.0, where innovation meets sustainability.

You are invited to join us for the first in our new webinar series Navigating Industry 4.0 in Materials, Minerals & Mining. 

You will hear from:

Professor Cinzia Giannetti, Swansea University

AI for smart and sustainable manufacturing: challenges and opportunities.

• Sensor technologies, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to transform the way we make, service and use products, bringing fundamental changes to our industry and society.
• In this talk, Prof Giannetti will give an overview of the technologies underpinning the digital transformation of production processes, also called Industry 4.0.
• Drawing from her research, she will show how innovations in data, connectivity and AI are enhancing decision-making capabilities in the manufacturing and materials sectors.  These advancements can help reduce inefficiencies, minimize waste, and promote sustainable production, fostering a more resource-efficient economy.

Mr Roeman Kirmse FIMMM, Tata Steel UK

To Industry 4.0 and beyond

• Steel strip is manufactured as a continuous web of material, we will explore the fundamental system technologies needed to implement a robust Industry 4.0 process and pave the way to Industry 5.0.

Mr Ben Saunders, Rolls-Royce plc

Automating inspections with AI

• Rolls-Royce is exploring the use of AI to automate inspections and microstructural characterisation in a number of business-critical applications.
• I’ll discuss some of the successes and the challenges!